THE CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS, APRIL 17, 2007, JOAN & ALAN BERNIKOW JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, STATEN ISLAND:
INTRODUCTION OF THE PROGRAM
MANNY SAKS
Introducing the evening's discussion, he stated that, as a child of a Holocaust Survivor, throughout his life he felt the psychology effect of the lack of relatives. He believes that it is his duty, his responsibility to tell the stories of his parents' experiences and to keep alive the memory of the horrors of the Holocaust.
YAFFA SCHOENBACH READING THE SECOND GENERATION PLEDGE
WE ARE the first generation born after the darkness. Through our parents' memories, words and silence, we are linked to that annihilated Jewish existence whose echoes permeate our consciousness.
WE DEDICATE this pledge to you, our parents, who suffered and survived.
to our grandparents, who perished in the flames; to our vanished brothers and sisters, more than one million Jewish children, so brutally murdered. to all Six Million whose unyielding spiritual and physical resistance, even in the camps and ghettos, exemplifies our people's commitment to life.
WE PLEDGE to remember!
WE SHALL TEACH our children to preserve forever that uprooted Jewish spirit which could not be destroyed.
WE SHALL TELL the world of the depths to which humanity can sink, and the heights which were attained, even in hell itself.
WE SHALL FIGHT anti-Semitism and all forms of racial hatred by our dedication to freedom throughout the world.
WE AFFIRM our commitment to the State of Israel and to the furtherance of Jewish life in our homeland.
WE PLEDGE ourselves to the oneness of the Jewish people.